Howcott v. Talen’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1985
17 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In fact, so long as he (the notary) exercises the precaution of an ordinarily prudent business mail in certifying to the identity of the persons who appear before him, it may be doubted whether he has any other function to discharge; and we are of opinion that such precaution was exercised by Dearing in the matters here complained of.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.